The challenge in building such systems is that theres a limit to how complex each robot can be. For one thing, they must be cheap enough that someone could afford to own hundreds or thousands of them. The Kilobots cost about $14 in parts. Their only sensors are infrared ones that calculate the distance between themselves and their neighbors. Thats why the robots always march at the edge of the group, as you can see in the video. Theyre keeping close to others because if they wander too far, theyre blind, unable to see their surroundings or calculate their positions.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:48:34 +0000